Apr 16, 2008
Categories: Town
This village has the unique distinction of having won both the National Tidy Towns Competition and the Nationwide CARE Award in the same year (1980). Newtowncashel village is specially featured for its stone walls built with artistry and the well kept Garda Station, Church, National School and Hertiage Centre. A number of fine outdoor sculptures [...]
This village has the unique distinction of having won both the National Tidy Towns Competition and the Nationwide CARE Award in the same year (1980). Newtowncashel village is specially featured for its stone walls built with artistry and the well kept Garda Station, Church, National School and Hertiage Centre. A number of fine outdoor sculptures designed by bog-wood sculptor Michael Casey that create a unique atomosphere in the village is prominent in its recent highlights. The restored Abbey of Saints Island to ... Read More
Apr 16, 2008
Categories: Town
Near the village of Abbeylara 4km south-west of Granard and close to the shore of Lough Kinale you will see the remains of a 13th century Cistercian abbey founded by an Anglo-Norman, Richard Tuite. Edward Bruce captured Granard and plundered this abbey. People believe that the semicircular earthwork north of the village is the site [...]
Near the village of Abbeylara 4km south-west of Granard and close to the shore of Lough Kinale you will see the remains of a 13th century Cistercian abbey founded by an Anglo-Norman, Richard Tuite. Edward Bruce captured Granard and plundered this abbey. People believe that the semicircular earthwork north of the village is the site of the original church founded by Saint Patrick about 460. Parts of the ancient defensive earthwork known as the black Pig's Dyke extends from the shore of ... Read More
Apr 16, 2008
Categories: Town
Abbeyshrules location is to the east of Ballymahon in a picturesque valley of the River Inny. A Cistercian Abbey (founded in 1150) was one of the earliest in the country after the success of the first foundation at Mellifont in County Louth. The Abbey was founded by the O’Farrells and was later closed by Queen [...]
Abbeyshrules location is to the east of Ballymahon in a picturesque valley of the River Inny. A Cistercian Abbey (founded in 1150) was one of the earliest in the country after the success of the first foundation at Mellifont in County Louth. The Abbey was founded by the O'Farrells and was later closed by Queen Elizabeth I in the time of the Tudor suppression of the monasteries. The lands were handed over to Robert Dillon, Earl of Roscommon. The graveyard close by ... Read More
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